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Ming Li (李明)

Associate Professor

College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

Email: limjnu@gmail.com

You can also find me at Google Scholar

ABOUT ME

Biography

I am an associate professor in the College of Cyber Security at Jinan University in Guangzhou. Before that, I was a PostDoc in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University in Singapore, under the supervision of Robert H. Deng (IEEE Fellow). I received my Ph.D. degree in the College of Information Science and Technology & College of Cyber Security at Jinan University in Guangzhou, under the supervision of Jian Weng. Also, I ever visited Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, under the supervision of Xiaodong Lin (IEEE Fellow). Before that, I worked as a software development engineer in Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. I am also CTO of fongwell. My research focuses on information security, especially blockchain security.

Research Interests

Private Computing, Blockchain Security its Applications, Two-layer State Channel, Security and privacy

✯ 2025. Nov - One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing IEEE TMC - 𝕟𝕖𝕨 !

✯ 2025. Mar - One paper was listed on Essential Science Indicators (ESI 1%) ranking as "Highly Cited Paper" from Web of Science - 𝕟𝕖𝕨 !

✯ 2025. Nov - One paper accepted by the Information Fusion

✯ 2024 Nov - One paper accepted by the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025.

✯ 2024 Nov - One paper accepted by the International Conference on Provable Security 2024.

✯ 2024 Nov - One paper accepted by the Designs, Codes and Cryptography.

✯ 2023. Nov - One paper accepted by the Information Sciences.

✯ 2023. Jun - One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) .

✯ 2023. Apr - One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT) .

✯ 2022. Dec - I will serve as Guest Editor for Special Issue "Privacy and Security for IoT Devices" in Electronics

✯ 2022. Apr- One paper accepted by the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) .

✯ 2022. Jul- One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT).

✯ 2021. Dec - I will serve as TPC Member for KSEM 2022.

✯ 2021. Oct - One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) .

✯ 2021. Sep - One paper accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J) .

✯ 2021. Jul - One paper was listed on Essential Science Indicators (ESI 1%) ranking as "Highly Cited Paper" from Web of Science.

✯ 2021. Feb - One paper won the first Prize of Outstanding Research Paper Award , Guangdong Computer Academy (2021), China.

✯ 2020. Oct - One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) .

✯ 2019. Dec - One paper was listed on Essential Science Indicators (ESI 1%) ranking as "Highly Cited Paper" from Web of Science.

✯ 2019. Dec - Our team won the first Prize in National University Blockchain Competition (50,000 RMB), China .

✯ 2019. Nov - One paper won the first Prize of Outstanding Research Paper Award , Guangdong Computer Academy (2019), China.

✯ 2019. Oct - One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) .

✯ 2019. Jul- One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT).

✯ 2018. Nov- One paper accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

REVIEWERS:

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2019- now.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2018-now.

International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023

IEEE Transactions on Reliability (ToR), 2022

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TPoS), 2021.

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2020.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2020 - now.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2019.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2020-now.

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2020.

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2020.

International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust, 2019.

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019.

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobalComm), 2018.

Journal of Supercomputing, 2018.

Secure Communication Systems (SecureComm), 2017

MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS

2022: The First Prize (5/11), Guangdong Natural Science Award, China.

2021: Gold Award (2/15), The 7th China International College Students' "Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

2021: The First Prize, Outstanding Research Paper Award of Guang Dong Computer Federation, China.

2019: The First Prize, Outstanding Research Paper Award of Guang Dong Computer Federation (The first author), China.

2019: The First Prize, The National University Blockchain Competition (Team captain), 50,000 RMB, China.

2018: National scholarship for Ph. D Students in Cyber Security (a total of 73 nationwide ), 50,000 RMB, China.

2017: The First Prize, The 10th National College Student Information Security Contest, China.

2017: The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards (Enter the Finals), Asia.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Ming Li, Jian Weng, Anjia Yang, Wei Lu, Yue Zhang, Lin Hou, Jia-Nan Liu, Yang Xiang, Robert Deng. CrowdBC: A blockchain-based decentralized framework for crowdsourcing. IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (CCF A，ESI %1, 2018. 30(6): 1251-1266.

2. Jiasi Weng, Jian Weng, Jianlian Zhang, Ming Li, Yue Zhang, Weiqi Luo. DeepChain: Auditable and Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning with Blockchain-based Incentive, IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A，ESI %1，IF=6.791), 2019, 18(5): 2438 - 2455.

3. Ming Li, Jian Weng, Anjia Yang, Jia-Nan Liu, Xiaodong Lin. Towards Blockchain-based Fair and Anonymous Ad Dissemination in Vehicular Networks. IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (JCR 1), 2019, 68(11): 11248-11259.

4. Ming Li, Jian Weng, Yi Li, Yongdong Wu, Jiasi Weng, Dingcheng Li, Guowen Xu, Robert Deng. IvyCross: A privacy-preserving and concurrency control framework for blockchain interoperability. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (CCF A).

5. Shun Hu, Ming Li(Co–first author), Jiasi Weng, Jia-Nan Liu, Jian Weng, Zhi Li. IvyRedaction: Enabling Atomic, Consistent and Accountable Cross-Chain Rewriting. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

6. Ming Li, Yuxian Li, Jian Weng, Yingjiu Li, Jiasi Weng, Junzuo Lai, Robert H Deng. IvyAPC: Auditable Generalized Payment Channels. Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025 (CCF C).

7. Caiqin Dong, Jian Weng, Ming Li* (corresponding author ), Jia-Nan Liu, Zhiquan Liu, Yudan Cheng, Shui Yu. Privacy-Preserving and Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A，ESI %1，IF=6.791).

8. Heng Sun, Weiyun Luo, Jian Weng*, Zhiquan Liu, Ming Li* (corresponding author). ECQV-GDH-Based Group Key Exchange Protocol for CAN Bus. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

9. Jia-Nan Liu, Xizhao Luo, Jian Weng, Anjia Yang, Xu An Wang, Ming Li, Xiaodong Lin. Enabling Efficient, Secure and Privacy-preserving Mobile Cloud Storage. IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A，IF=6.791), 2020.

10. Ming Li, Jian Weng, Jia-Nan Liu, Xiaodong Lin, Charlie Obimbo. Towards Vehicular Digital Forensics from Decentralized Trust: An Accountable, Privacy-preservation, and Secure Realization. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (JCR 1，IF=10.238), 2021, 9(9): 7009 - 7024.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

TPC member for ICC 2023.

TPC member for MSN 2023.

Guest Editor for Special Issue "Privacy and Security for IoT Devices" (Electronics, ISSN 2079-9292) , Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2023, Special Issue "Privacy and Security for IoT Devices".

TPC member for KSEM 2022 (15th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management) .

TPC member for PST 2021 (19th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust 2021).

TPC member for PST 2019 (17th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust 2019).

Volunteer for SecureComm 2016, Guangzhou, China, October 10-12, 2016.

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